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64 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Proposal 10 The Mayor expects London boroughs to develop Core Strategies, which commit the authority in their Local Development Framework to: ■ achieve the London Plan and Municipal Waste Management Strategy recycling targets ■ specify in which Local Development Scheme documents they will allocate sites to achieve their apportionment, set through the London Plan ■ establish criteria to determine waste planning applications while preparing more detailed proposals. 3.122 The Mayor expects that waste and reprocessing facilities will not be limited to materials and wastes from specific sources, for example, only accepting municipal waste, but will have contracts across the public and private sector. This will ensure that facilities operate at capacity, reduce the duplication of facilities and may assist the development of local facilities, which reduces transport requirements. 3.123 This approach is supported by the government. In Waste Strategy 2007 147 the government has stated that funding mechanisms, such as Private Finance Initiatives, will not prevent local authorities and their contractors from developing facilities to cater for both municipal and business waste. Defra’s Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme (WIDP) will ensure that the diversion of municipal waste from landfill is achieved, but it will seek to do so through joint merchant/municipal facilities where appropriate. 3.124 As an example, the East London Waste Authority’s contract with Shanks allows them to sell any short-term surplus capacity to third parties. Therefore, excess capacity created through waste prevention and recycling of municipal waste has a commercial value. 3.125 Defra’s Planning Systems Guidance 148 and a Planning Health Framework 149 encourage a constructive approach to waste planning, identifying actions that will facilitate favourable determinations of planning applications and speed the delivery of waste infrastructure. Proposal 11The Mayor expects London boroughs to: ■ provide capacity, where appropriate, for non-municipal waste when developing waste facilities ■ explore opportunities to develop waste management infrastructure that maximises the potential use of water and rail transport ■ explore opportunities to develop waste management infrastructure on-site as part of any site development or redevelopment.
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 65 Minimising the transport impact of services 3.126 The distance and mode by which materials are transported has a major bearing on whether the overall effect of reusing, composting, recycling and generating energy from waste is sustainable. Transport has a negative impact on London’s air quality, causes noise pollution and congestion, and inefficient transport can increase collection costs. The Environment Agency’s WRATE (Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment) software tool includes transport impacts and can be used to determine the impact that different transport modes, fuels and distances have on the overall sustainability of a waste management system. 3.127 Waste is currently transported greater distances than is necessary with multiple collection and haulage vehicles operating in the same area, transporting waste to distant, rather than local, facilities. 3.128 Modelling for the Transport for London Freight Unit estimates 150 that transporting waste in London accounts for between 40 and 50 million kilometres of travel per annum. Many of these movements involve vehicles of less than 3.5 tonnes, for example, by small builders and traders. 3.129 The Mayor is committed to reducing the transport impacts of waste management, through prioritising waste prevention and on-site or local waste management. For waste that must be transported, negative transport effects can be reduced by: ■ neighbouring businesses jointly procuring waste services ■ using sustainable, waste-derived fuels for road transport ■ moving waste transport off the roads and onto water and rail. Coordinating contracts 3.130 Businesses could benefit from economies of scale by taking a coordinated contractual approach to their waste management, for example, by joining together with those in their building or local area, within their industrial estate or Business Improvement District, to jointly procure waste management services. Such an approach may enable them to negotiate more competitively priced services and is a particular opportunity for small businesses. Environmentally, it is an important way to reduce the transport and associated impacts of collecting waste and materials for recycling. 3.131 This is being actively promoted by the Transport for London Freight Unit within their Delivery and Service Plan programme. The programme works
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